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Friend Zone

I really didn’t know how to broach the subject with Mindy. She doesn’t seem to have suffered any negative side effects because of the breakup with Mark. At first I worried that she might not fully understand. After several intense conversations and teary eyes (on my part), I think she got it. Yet, I still had a fear that she was secretly harboring hopes for us, Mark and I, getting back together. This fear made it difficult to tell her about Tyson. He was instrumental in my getting over the heartbreak quickly. We weren’t dating. He travels a lot, a serious relationship would be difficult right now. Instead, we agreed to keep all options open.

“That means your going on a date?” Mindy asked me.

“Yes.” I answered truthfully, closely watching her reaction.

“Am I going over Granny Schmidt’s house to play with Becky and Danny.”

She didn’t seem bothered at all. “No, Peggy is coming over to watch you while I’m gone.”

“Shucks”

I wasn’t only worried about Mindy’ opinion, either. There was also Peggy, she was at my house when Tyson arrived. I can always count on her to be honest, so I was afraid she would hate him. Not only hate him but tell me that she hated him, in front of him. She’s the only person that told me Mark was wrong for me after Mindy was born. She was also the first person to say I told you so when we broke up.

I was relieved when she politely shook Tyson’s hand and winked at me.

We went headed down to a burger joint in Eaton and talked about everything. How he was approaching forty and was tried of traveling. He was feeling the need to settle and establish roots. How he hated his job and just wanted to do something else. It was intense, I don’t remember ever having a conversation that deep with Mark, especially not over a game of pool.

He didn’t monopolize the whole conversation, either. Tyson listened to me as I explained at great lengths about how I felt that I would be a sales girl at the grocery forever. How I wished I had been more careful and not have gotten pregnant at such a young age.

“Not that I regret Mindy, she’s a joy.” I added not wanting to leave the impression that I resent my little girl.

“I know you don’t regret Mindy. You talk about her in our chats all the time. But what do you want to do, now?”

“If I hadn’t gotten pregnant, I would have gone to college and become a veterinarian. Now, I don’t know.”

“Why don’t you become an animal trainer. You could rescue animal like you did scout. Train them and find them homes. To cover the expenses you could get find them service jobs.”

I thought about what he said as he drove me back to Oasis Valley. It seemed like a lot of work. Adopting and training animals.

“What do you have to lose?” He whisper in my war as we said our goodbyes.

Seriously, what do I have to lose?

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I seriously wanted Sharon to be irresponsible. My plan was for her to meet Tyson for the first time, fall in love and marry him right off the bat. Mostly just to piss off her mother Jennifer and that it would have made for a great story. But she apparently is much more responsible than I thought. She did fall in love with Tyson, but no wants to marry or get engaged popped up. So, they are stuck in the friend zone for now. All the drama I had envisioned, spoiled yet again by an uncooperative sim.